Decreased urine output is associated with increased in-hospital mortality from sepsis-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome

The relationship between urine output (UO) and in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has not been elucidated. The demographic and clinical characteristics of patients from the intensive care unit with sepsis-associated ARDS in the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV database were collected, and binomial logistic regression was performed to determine whether UO was an independent risk factor for in-hospital death. Using the Logistic Organ Dysfunction System (LODS) and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) as a reference, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were drawn to analyze the efficacy of UO in predicting in-hospital mortality, and the Kaplan-Meier curve was drawn with the optimal cut-off value of the ROC curve. Decision curve analysis (DCA) was performed to assess the clinical net benefit of UO in predicting in-hospital mortality. UO was an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis-associated ARDS. The area under the ROC (AUC) for UO in predicting in-hospital mortality was 0.712, which was comparable to LODS and SOFA. The patients were grouped by the optimal UO cut-off value (1515 mL/day) identified by the ROC curve. The results showed that the median in-hospital survival time for the low-UO group was 20.565 days, and that of the high-UO group was 84.670 days. The risk of in-hospital death of the low-UO group was 3.0792 times that of the high-UO group. DCA showed that when using UO to predict in-hospital mortality, the clinical net benefit was higher than LODS or SOFA at almost all available threshold probabilities, particularly when the threshold probability was between 0.2 and 0.4. As a result, UO showed moderate efficacy in predicting in-hospital mortality, and when used to predict the in-hospital mortality of patients with sepsis-related ARDS, its clinical net benefit was higher than that of LODS or SOFA.

Urine output; Sepsis; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; In-hospital mortality; MIMIC-IV

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